Tarot - The mysterious wisdom of Tarot - Learn the basics of Tarot

Learning the Tarot is a complete course on how to use the tarot cards for personal guidance. The 19 lessons in the course cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. Exercises and sample responses for each lesson help you learn and practice. For simplicity, only one easy layout is used throughout the course - the Celtic Cross Spread. Learning the Tarot focuses in detail on the actual process of discovering meaning in the cards. Lessons cover topics such as how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading. A convenient reference section contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings. The tarot is a set of 78 intriguing picture cards that tend to trigger personal insights, enhance intuition and deepen awareness. The goal in Learning the Tarot is to give you the basics you need to begin working with the tarot on your own. Bunning makes this inner process understandable by breaking it up into a series of steps that are simple while still doing justice to the depth and beauty of the cards. She concentrates on the everyday, showing how the tarot makes real, practical sense in the modern world.

The two volumes of Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom have inspired a whole generation of tarot students. It has often been described by readers, booksellers, and teachers as the "Bible of tarot readers." It is also often cited as one of the landmark books in modern tarot, and it helped to launch the "Tarot Renaissance" of the 1980s. The two texts-one for The Major Arcana and one for The Minor Arcana, appear together in this volume, which is a reissue of the 1998 edition first published by Thorsons. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom draws on mythology and esoteric traditions and delves deeply into the symbolism and ideas of each card. It also gives the cards a modern psychological slant based on the pictures rather than a system of occult symbolism. This endlessly useful reference tool provides a concise history of tarot, introduces common spreads, and is a clear and readable book for both the beginning and advanced tarot student. Rachel Pollack is one of the most highly regarded tarotists in the world.

This book is The Book to use if you want to learn to read Tarot Cards. Gray begins with a brief overview of the history of the cards, which not only allows the reader to understand the tradition of the deck, but appreciate the tradition the practitioner is taking on. She then takes the time to describe each card, highlighting important symbolism within the paintings and explaining their meaning. Each card´s meaning, both standard and reversed, is given with enough detail to provide meaning, yet allow the practitioner room to interpret properly given the spread, environment, and recipient. I have yet to read a Tarot book that gives this much detail without the author wandering off into their own personal beliefs for pages on end. Gray also provides details of different spreads that can be utilized by the practitioner, depending upon their own needs and wishes. The most popular and standard Celtic Cross spread is given first billing, with good description of placement meaning and overall interpretation. An astrological spread is also detailed and summarized quite well. She does an excellent job of including the Tree of Life spread within just a few pages while still grasping the overall meaning and not getting bogged down in the details of this Qabalistic tradition. If you own a Tarot deck, you should own this book.

Drawing on nearly forty years of tarot experience, Mary K. Greer has developed a new energizing approach-made up of twenty-one stimulating techniques-to interpret or deepen your understanding of each card. Just as the twenty-one letters of the alphabet can be combined to form billions of words, Greer´s twenty-one methods can be used in any combination for gaining amazing new insights and perspectives. Emphasizing both traditional and personal methods of interpretation, Greer´s techniques involve storytelling, sketching, symbols, metaphors, dialogues, acting, and other imaginative exercises. Designed to bring about interaction, transformation, and empowerment, this twenty-one-pronged approach to tarot can help readers expand standard interpretations and evolve new ways of connecting to the cards. Winner of the Coalition of Visionary Resources Award for Best Divination Book. With 310 pages, 21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card features dozens of illustrations, including card images from 25 different decks such as the Stick Figure Tarot, Shining Tribe, Shapeshifter, Quest Tarot, Robin Wood Tarot, and Motherpeace. In addition to the in-depth exercises, there are nine appendices rich with referential and practical information.